Tag Archives: Ian Kennedy

ESCAPE OR DEATH

Issue Number: 4909
Escape or Death

Captain Jon Laker and Lieutenant Rodney Smythe-Simmons were stuck in a remote P.O.W. camp in desolate Poland. Both came from aristocratic families and this made them viable candidates for an important Nazi prisoner exchange operation. However, when the chance to escape unexpectedly came their way both men knew they had to seize it…or die trying.

HOME FRONT HEROES

Issue Number: 4895
Home Front Heroes

The crew of a Boulton Paul Defiant night-fighter were puzzled. Why was an Airspeed Oxford trainer aircraft flying above England under cover of darkness? The gunner wondered if perhaps something secretive was going on. How right he was. But there was no way that he could have known that the Oxford was being flown by […]

DO YOUR DUTY

Issue Number: 4893
Do Your Duty

By October 1945 World War II was over but some British forces were redeployed to the island of Java to support Allied troops in a battle with Nationalist guerrillas. The beleaguered men had expected to have been back home by now and some refused to fight. RAF mechanic Danny Cullen was stuck in the middle […]

ANOTHER TIGHT SPOT

Issue Number: 4882
Another Spot

Andy Leslie had known all along that he would have to face danger when he volunteered to serve with the Parachute Regiment. That had turned out to be the way of it, Andy battling his way clear from one tight spot after another with the famous Red berets. Nobody had ever warned him that he […]

POLISH PILOT

Issue Number: 4878
4878

At last Karl Latek had a real plane to fly against the Luftwaffe’s Messerschmitts. He had piloted his dated Polish PZL-11 against the Germans and been outclassed. Now his Hurricane was a joy to handle, and he was on level terms with the murderers of his family and friends. All he wanted was vengeance – […]

DEADLY PURSUIT

Issue Number: 4875
Deadly Pursuit

Cut off from their unit, Second-Lieutenant Bob Holbeck and Private Vic Jolly were trying to get out of battle-ravaged Malaya for the relative safety of Sumatra. Hooking up with a rag-tag group of survivors, they commandeered a Model T Ford pick-up truck and fled. In a retreat already fraught with danger, they would also have […]